Photographic mount for X-ray film



Julyl'55 1958 N. GREENE ErAL. 2,842,882

PHOTOGRAPHIC- MOUNT FOR x-RAY. FILM FiledlApg. 271954 2 TTQQNEY.

Nathan Greene and Rose Greene, North Heils/wood, @alitl Application August 27, 15954Serial No. 45255961 1 @lainee (Cl. itl-158) The present invention relates to photographic mounts for X-ray film, and has for an object the provision of a mount having spaced tabs which hold the X-ray film securely and without tab breakage.

It is common in the art to provide a mount for X-ray iilin, which is formed of some material, such as a plastic. l

This plastic mount may be transparent, translucent, or, in certain instances, may have transparent windows surrounded by areas which are blacked-out.

The X-ray pictures are secured over the window portions of the mount, usually by providing slits at spaced points on the mount, whereby upper and lower tabs and side tabs are provided for overlapping the edges of 'the X-ray lm. However, as the mount tears easily, the lifting of the tabs often causes breakage of the mount at this Zone, with the result that the mount, due to mutlation, must be replaced. Generally, in mounts for dental radiographs, the slits are in bacl -toback relationship, and such construction will, in the event the tab along one slitted portion is unduly raised by the operator during the insertion of an X-ray photograph cause a tearing into the opposite slit, resulting in a large hole or opening in the mount.

An object of the present invention is to so arrange and form the slits in the X-ray mount as to prevent tearing of the mount when the tab portions are raised to hold the X-ray lm.

1n the drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of an X-ray photographic mount incorporating the invention,

Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure l, and,

Figure 3 is a sectional View on the line 3 3 of Figure 1.

Referring now to the drawing, we have shown at 1, a photo-graphic mount of the type which will hold four Xray lilms, one of the X-ray lrns being shown at 2. To hold the X-ray ilm on the mount, tabs are formed in the mount, as shown at 3, 4, 5 and 6, for overlapping edges of the Xeray lm, as shown in Figures 1 and ZiZ iatented July l5, 1958 E over which the X-ray film is placed and held by the tabs is usually termed a windowf In the forming of the tabs, the mount is provided with slits of a curved, sinuous character, which is to say, provided with a central concave-convex portion '7, the slit bounding which merges with curved end convex-concave slits 8 and 9. The degree of arc of curvature is greater for the slits d and 9 than for the portion '7. Thus, if the curved portions t3 and 9 were continued so as to intersect, the intersecting portion, instead of being angular, is rounded. This is illustrated by the dotted lines at 1@ and 11, in Figure 1, which indicates a continuance of the curvature of the slits, and which shows that, instead of the abrupt angle, that the slit is curved at the intersection, and in this manner a tab is formed. In order to accommodate the greatest number of photographic mounts, the slits are in what may be deiined as a back-to-back relationship, so that in the case of a full dental radiograph, there will be space for X-ray photographs of the various areas of teeth.

The operation, uses and advantages of the invention are as follows:

By forming the slit on a curve on each side of the tab, with the side slits sub-tending a greater are than that the head of the tab, the iingers may engage the tab to raise the same, in the manner shown in Figure 3, at 12, with safety, for the reason that the curved slits S and 9 distribute stress and prevent tearing of the photographic mount.

We claim: l

A photographic mount for generally rectangular dental Xnay films including a blank of plastic material which is easily tearable at each end of a cut made in the plastic, said blank having therein four spaced slits, each of which by extending generally in the direction of a side of the dental lm to be retained in the mount provides a central inwardly directed tab to overlie a respective side of the ilm and the four slits leave the four corners of the film free, each of the two sides of each slit adjacent the tab curving away from the central tab, the ends of each of the slits being directed inwardly of the proximate margin of the film whereby to minimize tearing because of the wide slits formed by the curves when the tab is pressed up to receive the film, and to insure that if a tear is formed the tear will extend under the mounted rather than in a direction away from the margin ofthe lm.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,210,215 Satterlee Dec. 26, 1916 1,410,139 Sinclair Mar. 21, 1922 1,474,174 Segall Nov. 13, 1923 1,853,197 Bosworth Apr. 12, 1932 2,524,366 Buzzerd w- Oct. 3, 1950 2,532,132 Vogel Nov. 28, 1950 FORElGN PATENTS 53,924 Denmark a- Feb. 5, 1937 

